Mount Ida Plantation

Mount Ida
Mount Ida ruins in 2010. Only 5 of 6 columns still stand.
Location	Talladega County, Alabama
Coordinates	33°19′20″N 86°10′16″W / 33.32211°N 86.17116°W / 33.32211; -86.17116Coordinates: 33°19′20″N 86°10′16″W / 33.32211°N 86.17116°W / 33.32211; -86.17116
Built	1840–58
Built for	Walker Reynolds
Demolished	1956
Architectural style(s)	Greek Revival
Governing body	Private
Location of Mount Ida in Alabama

Mount Ida, also known as the Walker Reynolds House, was an antebellum mansion, built in the Greek Revival style beginning in 1840 by Walker Reynolds, between Sylacauga and Talladega in rural Talladega County, Alabama, United States.

Walker Reynolds was a wealthy planter and promoter of Talladega and Talladega County. He was born August 28, 1799, in Warren County, Georgia, and died January 18, 1871, in Talladega County. He came to Alabama in 1832, and settled among the Indians in Talladega County. In 1849 he was elected to the legislature on the Whig ticket, and during his service there, he succeeded in securing the passing of a charter giving to the county a railroad running through its entire length, then known as Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and afterwards as the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad. After the session of 1849, he was not again in public life, but engaged in planting and milling, and the buying and selling of public lands. Before the start of the Civil War, he opposed secession, but went with his adopted state when she seceded. Because of his age he could not enter the Confederate States Army but he aided largely in the support of the needy families of the Confederate soldiers during the war, and raised and equipped a company at his own expense. He was known by the title of major, presumably, from his connection with the militia. He is buried in the family cemetery at his home, Mount Ida.